The economic value of screening haemodialysis patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the USA.

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Published in Clin Microbiol Infect on May 20, 2011

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B Y Lee1, Y Song, S M McGlone, R R Bailey, J M Feura, J H Y Tai, G J Lewis, A E Wiringa, K J Smith, R R Muder, L H Harrison, B Piraino

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1: Public Health Computational and Operations Research (PHICOR), VA Pittsburgh Health Care System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. byl1@pitt.edu

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